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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Efimov Dmitry Egorovich hidden The Mariinsky Woman Gymnasium. | |
The building was built in 1845-1846 to the design of D.E. Yefimov for placing the office of the Governor of the Palace Board and Tsarskoye Selo Town headed by Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky ... | | The building was built in 1845-1846 to the design of D.E. Yefimov for placing the office of the Governor of the Palace Board and Tsarskoye Selo Town headed by Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky. Constructing works were made under the direction of the architect N.S. Nikitin. The office rooms and Ya.V. Zakharzhevsky’s flat were placed here. In 1865-1866 A.F. Vidov adapted for a gymnasium of the Mariinsky department. He retained the main staircase and central main hall as well as the flat of the Governor that was put to a chief master of the gymnasium. The opening of the gymnasium took place in this building on 7 February 1865. The first principle was the famous teacher N.A. Vyshnegradsky. Y.V. Zakharzhevsky was one of founders and the first trustee. In connection with rising the number of pupils the building was rebuilt and enlarged in 1874-1875 on A.F. Vidov’s project. In 1906-1907 the building was rebuilt again, it was overbuilt one more floor according to the project of the architect G.D. Grim and under the direction of the civil engineer V.A. Lipavsky. The decorating facades with rustics and window’s wedge key stones placed in fanlike way and superimposing each other date from the original architectural decoration of the building. The decoration of arch windows and attic completion was used by G.D. Grim in overbuilt third floor. A.A. Gorenko the future poetess A.A. Akhmatova , was learning in the Mariinsky Gymnasium during 1900-1905.
Persons Akhmatova Anna Andreevna Efimov Dmitry Egorovich Grimm German Davidovich Lipavsky, V.A. Nikitin, N.S. Vidov Alexander Fomich Zakharzhevsky, Ya.V.
Addresses Leontievskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 17
| | | | hidden The Tsarskoye Selo College for Maids of the Ecclesiastic Class | |
The Tsarskoye Selo Women College of the Saint Petersburg eparchy department was founded according to the Emperor order by Grande Duchess Olga Nikolayevna, later the Queen of Württemberg ... | | The Tsarskoye Selo Women College of the Saint Petersburg eparchy department was founded according to the Emperor order by Grande Duchess Olga Nikolayevna, later the Queen of Württemberg. The college opening took place on 22 October 1843 in the presence of all tsar’s family firstly in renting stone house of the Full State Councilor Obolensky (it was built in the 1820s according to the design of V.P. Stasov and V.P. Geste). The college was conceived as the exemplary one and was under the patronage of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna and under the trusteeship of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna. Later tens women religious colleges were founded per its sample in different places of the Russian Empire. In 1846 the college was granted by the Emperor a plot of 4 desyatinas (11 acres) of the palace land - the garden of the School Gardening establishment at the Kuzmisky Gate. Until 1917 it was used for kitchen garden and meadow as well as for pupils walking and named “pepiniere” (now it is the garden near the Monument to A.S. Pushkin). The former house of Obolensky, bought in the college ownership, was enlarged and rebuilt for educational aims in 1847-1851 according to the design of the architect D.Ye. Yefimov. A domestic chapel, consecrated in the honour of the Intercession of the Mother of God by Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Novgorod Nicanor in 1849, was constructed in the building. At the corner from the side of the Alexander Park a garden was laid out, it was surrounded with the fence on the stone foundation and with massive posts. In 1881-1883 in the connection of the increase in the number of the college staff the building was overbuilt with the third floor and enlarged to the yard side according to the design and under the direction of A.F. Vidov. The engineering equipment was made at the plant of San-Galli. All tsar family often spent the time among the college pupils, attended at public services in the domestic chapel, visited the college kitchen garden – “pepiniere”. The Tsesarevna and then Empress Maria Fiodorovna was the last august trustee since 1879, Emperor Alexander III often was here. In the honour of the Tercentenary of the House of the Romanovs the eparchy department supposed to transform the college into a theological-pedagogical institute. For this aim in 1916 the civil engineer A. Pavlov developed a design of enlarging the building up to Tserkovnaya Street, where at the corner there was a two-storied house bought from A.P. Merder, the principal of the college. In 1916-1917 the college garden – “pepiniere” supposed to allot for constructing the Institute of Experimental Surgery to the design of S.A. Danini. However these projects had been not had time to finish in the connection of the events of 1917. After 1918 the college and chapel was liquidated, the building has been used for a school until the present time.
Persons Alexander III, Emperor Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress Danini Silvio Amvrosievich Efimov Dmitry Egorovich Hastie Vasily Ivanovich (William) Maria Fedorovna, Empress Stasov Vasily Petrovich Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Dvortsovaya Street/Pushkin, town Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town
| | | | hidden The Tsarskoye Selo Palace Hospital | |
The Tsarskoye Selo Palace Hospital included two charity establishments: a hospital and alms-house, both supported for the money of the Palace Board since the time of Catherine I ... | | The Tsarskoye Selo Palace Hospital included two charity establishments: a hospital and alms-house, both supported for the money of the Palace Board since the time of Catherine I. The hospital was placed in this place, originally located near Torgovaya (Trade) Square at the entry into Tsarskoye Selo from Moscow Road, according to the order of Alexander I of 23 October 1808. One-storied wooden building of the hospital with the Church of the Consolation of all the Afficted, alms-houses, chemist's shops, gardens for men and women departments, the fence around the hospital complex were built during 1809-1817 to the design of the architect V.I. Geste. On 21 July 1844 Nicholas I approved the design of new stone buildings for the hospital instead of outmoded wooden ones, that was developed by the architect D.Ye. Yefimov. The construction works were being done from 1844 until 1852 under the direction of the architect N.S. Nikitin. Hospital buildings have survived until present time. The main building of the hospital and detached buildings of the alms-house, chemist’s house, dwelling house for hospital workers, wash-house, chapel were surrounded with a fence and garden laid out on the base of the old hospital gardens by the gardener V. Miller. The consecration of the hospital church in the name of the icon of the Mother of God “Consolation of All Who Sorrow” took place on 28 September 1852. The court surgeon F.F. Zhukovsko-Volynsky 1804-1879) worked as the head physician of the hospital. Considerable works on modernization and re-equipment of the hospital were done from the late 19th century to the early 20th century to the designs of A.F. Vidov, A.R. Bach, S.A. Danini with the participation of doctors A.F. Gaaze, Ye.S. Botkin. The female-surgeon Princess V.I. Gedroits worked here according to the will of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. An outpatients department and admission room were built to the main building in 1908-1914 to the design of architect Danini. The hospital church of the Consolation of all the Afficted was enlarged, the cave-temple of Sts. Constantine and Helen, Equal-to-the-Apostles with separate entrance was placed in the new annex. In 1911-1913 Danini built a pavilion for infectious patients. In this pavilion during World War I there was a department for officers for thirty bunks of the Own Hospital No. 3 which was established for wounded men for personal savings of the empress. The Own hospital department for lower ranks for 200 people occupied the upper floor in the main building of the hospital. Sisters Romanov worked at this hospital until the arrest in February 1917. Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna was a scrub nurse, she assisted to the surgeon V.I. Gedroits and herself did bandaging. Her elder daughters Grand Duchesses Olga Nikolayevna and Tatiana Nikolayevna worked side by side of the mother. Now the N.A. Semashko Town Hospital No. 38 of the Health Protection Committee of Saint Petersburg is placed here.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress Bach Alexander Romanovich Catherine I, Empress Danini Silvio Amvrosievich Efimov Dmitry Egorovich Gedroits, Vera Ignatyevna, princess Hastie Vasily Ivanovich (William) Nicholas I, Emperor Nikitin, N.S. Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Princess Tatyana Nikolaevna, Grand Princess Vidov Alexander Fomich Zhukovsko-Volynsky, F.F.
Addresses Gospitalnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 7
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Grand Duke Nikolai Aleksandrovich, heir of the throne, was born in the family of Heir Alexander Nikolayevich in Tsarskoye Selo; Grand Duke Nikolai Aleksandrovich died in 1865 ... | | Grand Duke Nikolai Aleksandrovich, heir of the throne, was born in the family of Heir Alexander Nikolayevich in Tsarskoye Selo; Grand Duke Nikolai Aleksandrovich died in 1865. The electromagnetic telegraph, first in Russia, connecting Tsarskoye Selo with Saint Petersburg, was installed in the study of Nicholas I in the Alexander Palace. 22 October. The Tsarskoye Selo college for the church rank girls was opened. In 1847 architect D.E. Efimov reconstructed the house of Obolensky in Moskovskaya Street for the building of this college and in 1881 А.F. Vidov once again reconstructed and enlarged the building (now it's school no. 606 ).
Persons Alexander II, Emperor Efimov Dmitry Egorovich Nikolay Alexandrovich, Grand Prince Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town
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Architect N.S. Nikitin constructed the office building of the Chief Manager of the Palace Board, according to the design by D.E. Efimov. During 1865-1866 architect A.F. Vidov accomodated this building for the gymnasium ... | | | | | | | | |
